Quotes About Desire

1 JOHN 2 : 15 – 17

NOVEMBER 1 DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED by the difficulty of keeping your focus on Me. I know that your heart's desire is to be aware of My Presence continually. This is a lofty goal; you aim toward it but never fully achieve it in this life. Don't let feelings of failure weigh you down. Instead, try to see yourself as I see you. First of all, I am delighted by your deep desire to walk closely with Me through your life.

But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." —MATTHEW 6:20–21

They were beautiful beyond words, beautiful beyond understanding. So beautiful, I wanted to tear out my heart and hand it over, because after seeing them, I surely wouldn't have any more use for it.

What's it like where they live?" "It's everything you want it to be.

Now that you know the wishing ways, you'll feel the wishes around you. They'll make you itchy, 'cause you know you can do something about them, but that ain't always the best idea.

love was all there was. And she had it, even if it wasn't displayed the way she wanted it to be.

This feeling of not having control, even when one has a strong motivation or desire, is a strong contributor to depressed feelings.

Anyway, I don't want anyone else, I just want Vaughn.' It was good to finally say it, as if Grace said it out loud then maybe the universe would get the message and send him back to her.

This time she´d totally own the goodbye and leave him wanting more.

It's so stupid how someone touching you - just their skin on your skin - can make you feel all sorts of things you don't want to feel.

One taste wasn't enough. You couldn't just give a girl a glimpse of a better life and slam the door in her face.

I did get lost but I wanted someone to find me.

She was so fed up with unrequited love and platonic love and all the other kinds of love that weren't passionate, romantic, can't-live-without-you, I-have-to-have-you-right-now, the-beat-of-your-heart-matches-the-beat-of-mine love.

And suddenly I got what the big deal was about kissing. How someone could suck on your bottom lip and make you come completely undone. That someone stroking the hair back from your face could make you swoon and someone sliding his hands underneath your top could make you feel wanted for the first time in your life.

Just once, I'd like to find a boy. And I like him and he likes me. And we have a laugh and the kissing's really good and there's no-one getting in the way of the laughing and the kissing. Is that too much to ask?

Each kiss was like biting into the richest darkest chocolate and pausing to savour the taste.

Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.

Even when I had it, it was never mine. Not the ring...or you.

People say you can tell you're in love with someone when you find it impossible to get that person out of your mind. But it was my eyes that were the first to know.

Bertolt Brecht's observation in The Threepenny Opera that eating takes precedence over morality. Emerging

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger…. It never said a thing except I want, I want, I want!

It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.

A man is only as good as what he loves.